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Can't specify installation path for some apps
Hi,
I recently installed Windows 7, and soon started to notice a rather annoying problem.
Some programs won't let me choose where to install them. Normally the default path should be displayed with the browse button to the right that lets you change the path. But in win 7 there was no default path shown and the browse button was disabled.
Could anyone please shed some light on why this is happening? I've never had this problem before, and google found absolutely nothing about it.
I recently installed Windows 7, and soon started to notice a rather annoying problem.
Some programs won't let me choose where to install them. Normally the default path should be displayed with the browse button to the right that lets you change the path. But in win 7 there was no default path shown and the browse button was disabled.
Could anyone please shed some light on why this is happening? I've never had this problem before, and google found absolutely nothing about it.
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Things are looking a bit brighter now.
I went through all my apps and I remember now at least two other that had this problem. However in one case I must have simply forgot to click the customize button. In the other case I did click custom, which showed a list of features to install. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and discovered that the "root feature", ie. the program itself, has to be highlighted. Otherwise the textbox with the install path disappears and the browse button gets disabled.
I still have the problem with Cubase though. In this case it's not the browse button but the customize button that's disabled. I'm certain I installed it on the d: partition on my last system with Vista, and why would they provide a customize button if they never intended for it to be used?
At least now I know it's not related to the other programs. Maybe I should go over to the Cubase forum and ask if anybody else have had this problem.
I went through all my apps and I remember now at least two other that had this problem. However in one case I must have simply forgot to click the customize button. In the other case I did click custom, which showed a list of features to install. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and discovered that the "root feature", ie. the program itself, has to be highlighted. Otherwise the textbox with the install path disappears and the browse button gets disabled.
I still have the problem with Cubase though. In this case it's not the browse button but the customize button that's disabled. I'm certain I installed it on the d: partition on my last system with Vista, and why would they provide a customize button if they never intended for it to be used?
At least now I know it's not related to the other programs. Maybe I should go over to the Cubase forum and ask if anybody else have had this problem.
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Run as admin didn't work, but thanks anyway.
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